About this Event
KW’s monthly variety show, performance laboratory, and community arts party.
Featuring a surprising mix of Psychic Performance, Slack Lining, Queer Line Dancing, Improv Comedy, Storytelling, Zines & who knows what else!
Expect the unexpected with:
- is the line dancing love child of Saff and Fox, teaching and choreographing dances in KW and beyond! They’ve been putting the y’all in y’allternative since March 2025 at their own events and various venues/festivals from Hamilton to Halifax! Let Bolo take you on a journey to answer the question, what’s queer about line dancing?
- (she/her) is a slackline athlete, performer and community builder. You may have seen her bouncing around and walking a highline over top of the Elora gorge. Pushing the limits of human balance, Ali stands, sways and does tricks on a slackline.
- is a multidisciplinary artist currently residing on the Haldimand Tract as a settler from the islands of Crete and Cyprus. Her work spans publications, films, animation and street art. They will be performing as the Oracle of Elfie, a cosmic traveller visiting Pinch Cabaret to deliver some messages from the cosmos.
- Daniel Gorodetsky is an improviser, storyteller, and psychotherapist living in Vancouver, BC. He enjoys spending time in nature, eating good food, soothing his anxious cat, and visiting his brother's family. Daniel explains the temperamental process of becoming a shrink: choosing the path, grad school, registration, and beyond.
- are an improv ensemble of women and non-binary performers from Guelph! Using audience suggestions The Phlegmies will improvise a never-before-seen performance designed to delight you and surprise themselves.
- And for the Pinch Zine Series, this month we’ll release Memento Mori Issue 2 by . Freya is a KW based artist, poet, and wanderer in the fourth dimension. They think witchcraft is pretty neat, and love being queer. Memento Mori Issue 2 is a prayer for the survival and joy of transgender people everywhere. It is an exploration of life, death, ancestor veneration, and being queer.
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Advance tickets are $5 / $10 / $20 / $30 - you choose the option that's right for you
Limited tickets will be available at the door
Indigenous community members are welcomed to attend for free.
Enormous thanks to Waterloo Region Community Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, City of Kitchener, City of Waterloo, Region of Waterloo, and The Registry Theatre for their generous support, allowing for accessible ticket pricing!
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Doors: 7:45
Show: 8:00
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VENUE:
We're back at Button Factory Arts - 25 Regina St, Waterloo.
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Ben Gorodetsky (he/they)is a performance maker, filmmaker, writer, and producer based in Kitchener, Ontario. They are the creator and former host of experimental variety show Dirt Buffet Cabaret, and former technical director at NYC burlesque theatre Duane Park. His performance work has been presented by The Art Gallery of Ontario, CAFKA, Femme Folks Fest, LUMEN, Open Ears, Movement Research at Judson Church, The Tank NYC, Mile Zero Dance, Guelph Dance Festival, Hillside Fest, Brian Webb Dance Company, Expanse Festival of Movement Arts, Rubaboo Festival, SpringWorks, and the Gas Station Arts Centre. They are the former Associate Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre and have performed, taught, and directed improvisation in Atlanta, Detroit, Austin, Philadelphia, NYC, LA, Reunion Island, Vienna, Ljubljana, Montreal, Toronto, Yellowknife, Calgary, and Vancouver. He is co-creator of political satire comedy duo Folk Lordz (VICE). Ben is the winner of the 2016 Emerging Artist Award at the Mayor's Celebration for the Arts (Edmonton), the Anna Pidruchney Young Writers award, and a nominee for a Canadian Comedy Award and a Waterloo Region Arts Award. He is Creator and Executive Producer of CTV docuseries "MY PET ATE WHAT?", out now on Crave. They teach at UWaterloo, and hold an MFA from Brooklyn College-CUNY and a BFA from the University of Alberta.
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Show poster by Aaron Read
Event venue & nearby stays
Button Factory Arts, 25 Regina Street South, Waterloo, Canada
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